Anxiety and depression are very common in population and occur in a wide range of clinical states and is very common in epileptic patients. Many recent epidemiological studies have found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in epileptic patients. These studies found that epileptic patients suffered from depression and anxiety than those without epilepsy. The prevalence of depression or a...

Caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) is the most commonly ingested stimulant in the world. The daily consumption of this methylxanthine in coffee, tea and soft drinks is approximately 200 mg per person, which yields a pharmacologically active blood concentration. Experimental data indicate that caffeine may either lower the convulsive threshold in experimental models of epilepsy or induce seizure...

INTRODUCTION It is considered that around 20%-30% of patients of all ages and in all continents have wrong epilepsy diagnoses. Diagnostic and consequential therapeutic errors appear, most often, when an adequate diagnostics is not applied. Benign focal epilepsy of childhoods with centrotemporal spikes-rolandic epilepsy, brings very often to diagnostic and therapeutic problems because of persist...

'Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy' or Dravet syndrome is a clear example of the impact of severe epilepsy on the developing child. Presenting with febrile seizures in infancy, children later on develop a severe epileptic syndrome with mental retardation. Nearly all children have life-threatening status epilepticus during the first two years of life. The clinical diagnosis can now be confirm...

OBJECTIVE To determine prescribing patterns of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in pediatric patients with confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy, and to provide knowledge of general practice of physicians. METHODS The study was a multi-center crosssectional observational study, in specialized clinics for management of epilepsy in north, central and south Jordan. This study was conducted from January 2014...

Paroxysmal kinesiogenic choreoathetosis is rare movement disorder, which is frequently misdiagnosed as an epileptic disorder partly because of a good response to anti-epileptic drugs (Phenytoin sodium). At times these patients are mistaken for a conversion reaction. One such case is described.

The goal in managing patients with epilepsy is complete seizure freedom. Pharmacotherapeutic management of epilepsy is complicated by multiple syndromes, inter-individual differences in drug sensitivities, inter-individual differences in drug disposition, and drug interactions. Most anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) have a therapeutic window with only a 2- to 3-fold concentration range. Extended rele...

PURPOSE To determine the influence of pregnancy-related knowledge and the risk perception on reproductive decision making in women with epilepsy. METHODS We enrolled women with epilepsy, who were of reproductive age and were considering having children in the future. A questionnaire was used to assess the level of pregnancy-related knowledge, perception of the offspring's risk for developing ...